Welcome to R-Ladies St. Louis

Introduction to Positron

2024-11-07

Materials for tonight

What is R-Ladies?

  • R-Ladies is a world-wide organization with the mission of promoting gender diversity in the R community

  • Started in San Francisco in 2012 and now has 225 chapters globally (check out rladies.org for more information)

R-Ladies St. Louis

Started in September 2017 by Jenine Harris and Chelsea West


Co-organizers for 2024-25 include:

  • Jenine Harris (Washington University)
  • Mary Painter (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  • Shelly Cooper (Washington University)
  • Crystal Lewis (Freelance Data Management Consultant)
  • Laura Rose (Hinge Health)

2024-25 Fall Schedule

  • PAST September SatuRday with R-Ladies: R for beginneRs
  • Tonight: Introduction to Positron with M. Kathleen Caulfield
  • TBD: TBD

Announcements

  • We will be recording this talk

    • Feel free to turn off your cameras if you do not want to be recorded

  • Use the chat to ask questions (to everyone or directly to the host)


Code of Conduct
https://rladies.org/coc/

Want to learn more or get involved?

Visit rladies.org to learn about the mission and global work of R-Ladies

About tonight’s speaker

  • M. Kathleen Caulfield has been using R for 9 years to clean and analyze psychology research data
  • She works as an Associate Research Analyst at Reason Research and provides data management support for the University of Pittsburgh’s CNMA lab, where she earned her Master’s
  • She loves teaching, cooking, and those rare occasions when the code Just Runs

R-Ladies theme for Quarto Presentations. Code available on GitHub.